Glossary - Chapter 18

Artistic effects

Formats applied to images that make pictures resemble sketches or paintings.

Aspect ratio

The ratio of the width of a display to the height of the display.

Black slide

A slide that displays after the last slide in a presentation, indicating that the presentation is over.

Bulleted list

A list of items preceded by small dots or other shapes, which do not indicate order or rank. Sometimes
called unordered lists.

Clip

A single media file such as art, sound, animation, or a movie.

Contiguous slides

Slides that are adjacent to each other in a presentation.

Crop

A command that removes unwanted or unnecessary areas of a picture.

Crop handles

Handles used to remove unwanted areas of a picture.

Crop pointer

The pointer used to crop areas of a picture.

Crosshair pointer

The pointer used to draw a shape.

Editing

The process of modifying a presentation by adding and deleting slides or by changing the contents of
individual slides.

Eyedropper

A tool that captures the exact color from an object on your screen and then applies it to any shape,
picture, or text.

Fill color

The inside color of text or of an object.

Footer

Text that displays at the bottom of every slide or that prints at the bottom of a sheet of slide handouts
or notes pages.

Formatting

The process of changing the appearance of the text, layout, and design of a slide.

Header

Text that prints at the top of each sheet of slide handouts or notes pages.

Layout

The arrangement of elements, such as title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, shapes, and
movies, on a slide.

List level

An outline level in a presentation represented by a bullet symbol and identified in a slide by the
indentation and the size of the text.

Noncontiguous slides

Slides that are not adjacent to each other in a presentation.

Normal view

The primary editing view in PowerPoint where you write and design your presentations.

Notes page

A printout that contains the slide image on the top half of the page and notes that you have created on
the Notes pane in the lower half of the page.

Notes pane

An area of the Normal view window that displays below the Slide pane with space to type notes
regarding the active slide.

Numbered list

A list of items preceded by numbers, which indicate sequence or rank of the items. Sometimes called
ordered lists.

Outline view

A PowerPoint view that displays the presentation outline to the left of the Slide pane.

Placeholder

A box on a slide with dotted or dashed borders that holds title and body text or other content such as
charts, tables, and pictures.
Presenter view

A view that shows the full-screen slide show on one monitor or projection screen while enabling the
presenter to view a preview of the next slide, notes, and a timer on another monitor.

Reading view

A view in PowerPoint that displays a presentation in a manner similar to a slide show but in which the
taskbar, title bar, and status bar remain available in the presentation window.

RGB

A color model in which the colors red, green, and blue are added together to form another color.

Rotation handle

A circular arrow that provides a way to rotate a selected image.

Ruler guides

Dotted red vertical and horizontal lines that display in the rulers indicating the pointer’s position.

Section header

A type of slide layout that changes the look and flow of a presentation by providing text placeholders
that do not contain bullet points.

Shape

A slide object such as a line, arrow, box, callout, or banner.

Sizing handles

Small circles surrounding a picture that indicate that the picture is selected.

Slide

A presentation page that can contain text, pictures, tables, charts, and other multimedia or graphic
objects.

Slide handout

Printed images of slides on a sheet of paper.

Slide pane

A PowerPoint screen element that displays a large image of the active slide.

Slide Sorter view

A presentation view that displays thumbnails of all of the slides in a presentation.

Slide transitions
Motion effects that occur in Slide Show view when you move from one slide to the next during a
presentation.

Smart guides

Dashed lines that display on your slide when you are moving an object to assist you with alignment.

Split button

A type of button in which clicking the main part of the button performs a command and clicking the
arrow opens a menu, list, or gallery.

Style

A collection of formatting options that you can apply to a picture, text, or an object.

Text alignment

The horizontal placement of text within a placeholder.

Text box

An object with which you can position text anywhere on a slide.

Theme

A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your presentation by applying colors, fonts, and
effects.

Thumbnails

Miniature images of presentation slides.

Title slide

A slide layout—most commonly the first slide in a presentation—that provides an introduction to the
presentation topic.

Variant

A variation on the presentation theme style and color.